Theoretically, if you have a file that is split on 2 drives it can be read simultaneously from both drives. If you defrag that array, I'd guess that the file is then combined into one contiguous file ...

I've been running an Abit A7V with a built in Highpoint 374 RAID controller for a while. I used a RAID 0+1 array thinking that I would be able to survive a dead drive due to the mirroring. Long story ...

Western Digital’s My Book Studio Edition II is an external hard drive that uses two drives, pre-configured as a fast RAID 0 (striped) array. Our test unit came with two 500GB WD Green Power drives ...

Apple's Mac Pro computers have the capacity of holding up to four internal hard drives, and all Mac models support the use of external drives through either USB or FireWire. This allows for multiple ...